17 Oct 2019

A (typical?) story

of a young researcher

Incentive structures

in scholarly communication

novelty

positive results

(Nosek, Spies, and Motyl 2012)

Degrees of freedom

in the research process

  • multitude of decisions to be made

Degrees of freedom

in the research process

  • multitude of decisions to be made


Are football (soccer) referees more likely to give red cards to players with dark skin than to players with light skin?

  • 29 research teams
  • same data set
  • same results?

(Silberzahn and Uhlmann 2015)

Degrees of freedom

in the research process

  • multitude of decisions to be made


Are football (soccer) referees more likely to give red cards to players with dark skin than to players with light skin?

  • 29 research teams
  • same data set
  • same results?

(Silberzahn and Uhlmann 2015)

Nobody’s perfect - cognitive biases

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Vielen Dank

für die Aufmerksamkeit

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Nosek, Brian A., Jeffrey R. Spies, and Matt Motyl. 2012. “Scientific Utopia: II. Restructuring Incentives and Practices to Promote Truth over Publishability.” Perspectives on Psychological Science : A Journal of the Association for Psychological Science 7 (6): 615–31. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691612459058.

Silberzahn, Raphael, and Eric L. Uhlmann. 2015. “Crowdsourced Research: Many Hands Make Tight Work.” Nature 526 (7572): 189–91. https://doi.org/10.1038/526189a.